The truth is, I don’t know the exact number of times I?was?sexually assaulted. It’s hard to quantify when I’m not sure what qualifies. Is it assault when you don’t remember all of what happened? When you’re only pretty sure you told him to stop? And whose fault is it really when, time and again, you put yourself in the same situation?

The very simple answer is that the Soviets were interested in students. In fact, the National Student Association was really created in response to an international event, which was the 1946 founding of the International Union of Students based in Prague. At that point, IUS represented about 70 countries and it was very broadly based. Most European unions joined and there was a big debate over whether it was Communist-dominated because of the location?? although Czechoslovakia was not then a Communist country.Some of the officers were only involved for the one year that they were elected officials of the NSA. Others spent five years with the agency because if you did that, apart from basic training, you got an exemption from the draft. That had great meaning during the Korean War, as several former participants explained to me. They said,?look, it kept me out of Korea!?Others still stayed far longer and became career officers.